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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Monitoring

Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 20:28:25 -0500
Sometimes, I just want to get a quick view of what's going on so monitor for a while but the logging is what seems to use up all of the system resources after a while.


On Sat, 15 May 2010 12:16:06 -0700, M Holt wrote:
> Can you just use dumpcap with a ring buffer?  Then stop the capture once
> the event you are looking for is seen:
> 
> http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/dumpcap.html
> 
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:02 AM, mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> Any way of monitoring only, without a capture, until I need to capture?
>> 
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